“To my horror, I discovered a rough looking bearded man, covered in tattoos, hammering at my door,” McNair recalled of the chilling darkness. “His size could quite easily [have] been compared to a mountain he was that big.”

She considered calling the police, until the man revealed the tiny creature cradled in his hands. The man had rescued the kitten from the clutches of drunken party girls.

“He told me how him and his mates had been out drinking and these young girls were passing this wee kitten around like it was a toy, and so had taken it off them,” McNair recalled.